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Is nuclear power gaining new energy?
www.bbc.com/news/articles/czr764nr873o
According to the International Atomic Energy Agency, this led to the loss of 48GW of electric power generation (globally, totally, entirely, universally) between 2011 and 2020.
But nuclear development did not stop. In China, for example, there were 13 nuclear reactors in 2011. There are now 55, with another 23 (with, in, at, under) construction.
For Beijing, (scrambling, climbing, bustling, sputtering) to meet rapidly growing electricity demand, nuclear had, and still has, a vital role to play.
Now interest in the sector seems to be growing elsewhere once again. This is partly because developed countries are hunting for ways to meet energy demand, while (exerting, striving, competing, tugging) to meet emissions reduction targets under the Paris Agreement.
With 2024 projected to be the warmest year on record, the pressure to cut carbon emissions is (ascending, mounting, upward, clambering).
A renewed focus on energy security, in the (outcome, effect, wake, upshot, repercussions) of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, has also been a factor.
South Korea, for example, recently (junked, shed, scrapped, threw away) plans to phase out its large fleet of nuclear power stations over the next four decades – and will build more instead.
And France has reversed plans to reduce its own (confidence, trust, faith, reliance) on nuclear energy, which provides 70% of its electricity. Instead, it wants to build up to eight new reactors.
In addition, last week the US government reaffirmed at the United Nations Climate Change Conference, or Cop29, (carried out, celebrated, held, performed, fulfilled) in Azerbaijan, that it intends to triple nuclear power generation by 2050.
The White House had originally (affirmed, pledged, betrothed, assured) to do this on the side lines of last year's conference, Cop28. A total of 31 countries have now agreed to try to triple their use of nuclear power by 2050, including the UK, France and Japan.
Also at Cop29, which ended on Friday, 22 November, the US and UK announced that they would (conspire, collude, league, collaborate) to speed up the development of new nuclear power technology.
This came after it was agreed in the final statement or (“stocktake”, “inventory”, “catalogue”, “list”) of last year's Cop28 that nuclear power should be one of the zero or low emission technologies to be “accelerated” to help combat climate change.
But hunger for clean power is not just coming from governments. Technology giants are (exerting, striving, combatting, conflicting) to develop more and more applications that use artificial intelligence.
Yet AI relies on data – and data centres need constant, (reliable, faithful, loyal, unfailing, reputable, infallible) electricity.
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